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General News: Industrial Park Struggles with Storm Recovery
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| Debris is piled high inside Superior Packing after the flood in August. |
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| An emergency staircase was knocked on its side by the flooding. |
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| The Moodna creek rushes behind the building where the stairs were knocked over. |
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| A truck is stuck in the mud where the driveway to the loading dock was washed out. |
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| Water covers the floor of the packaging company and plywood covers the hole created by a dumpster that smashed through it during the flood. |
September 29, 2011
By Charlie B. Scirbona
It’s been a bad month for Joe Longobardi, property manager of Superior Packing Group’s site in the Cornwall Industrial Park.
Longobardi has been working to clean up devastation left over from Tropical Storm Irene on seven properties in the Industrial Park on Mill Street. SPG’s warehouses, as well as warehouses for six other businesses in that section of the industrial park, have been completely wiped out, according to Longobardi.
“Four of the seven have already left, and they’ve left their trash behind, too,” he said. The trash Longobardi referred to is mostly rows and rows of waterlogged cardboard boxes from the packing company.
SPG recently asked the Orange County Industrial Development Agency for support to retrofit a site in Harriman to replace the flood-damaged warehouse in Cornwall.
Debris Still Litters the Property
During Tropical Storm Irene, the Moodna Creek flooded its banks and sent a torrent of water through the warehouse. The water, which was between three and five feet deep, punched holes in exterior walls, completely collapsed interior walls and even crumbled a driveway leading toward the loading dock in the back of the building.
Longobardi has been working with a few employees to clean out the massive warehouse, but even after a week of clean up and filling three large dumpster he and his crews had barely made a dent.
“We’ve got about 300,000 square feet here and 280,000 square feet of it has been destroyed,” he said. Another problem for Longobardi is the matter of funding. He hasn’t been able to haul the dumpsters because he’s been waiting to see who will pay for it.
“We’re waiting on the government, and we don’t know how much assistance we’ll get, if any,” said Longobardi.
Village Repairs Moving Slowly
The Village of Cornwall-on-Hudson is also in a holding pattern concerning storm damage. Village Clerk Jeanne Mahoney explained that so far the village has only made essential repairs, and has been doing as much in-house work as possible to curb costs. Mahoney added that some repairs, like work to the village’s snow plows, are being put off until damage figures come in.
“We haven’t had any firm indication from the insurance company on what the assessed damages will be,” Mahoney said. She added that they also had to wait to see what and if the village will get any kind of government assistance. She added that “only a handful” of residents had contacted her about getting government assistance for storm damages.
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